Active Reading- Quotes: Chapter Two

"Her name was Pilar Ternera. She had been part of the exodus that ended witht he founding of Macondo, dragged along by her family in order to separate her from the man who had raped her at fourteen and had continued and had continued to love her until she was twenty two, but who never made up his mind to make the situation public because he was a man apart."

-This quote is about Pilar Ternera whom is the woman with which Jose Arcadio has a love affair with and in result she becomes pregnant. This quote explains her earlier life before Macondo. It tells about how she was in love and she was raped by the man who raped her. Obviously

"Fearing that her stout and willful husband would rape her while she slept, Ursula before going to bed, would put on a rudimentary kind of drawers that her mother made out of sailcloth and had reinforced with a system of crisscrossed leather straps and that was closed in the front by a thick iron buckle."

-This quote is about when Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia got married, everyone warned Ursua that her children would come out deformed. Ursula was afraid of this so she wore a chastity belt so Jose Arcadio Buendia wouldn't even attept to rape her.